Report on the Mackenzie Manuscripts. 



come from Mysore, and sometimes as a king from the north. In the 

 foregoing document it is said that many evils befel Sri-rangham, in the 

 time of the 80th head Brahman, without saying whence these proceeded ; 

 but the date given Sal, Sac. 1293, as that when the evils were repaired 

 (corresponding with A. D 1361), enables us to perceive that the incur- 

 sion of the Mahomedans must have been the cause. The name of Cam- 

 panra-udiyar here occurs : and while the cognomen udiyar, shews him to 

 have been a local chief, probably in Mysore, it is also here stated that he 

 was subordinate to Bukha-rdyer of Vijayanagaram ; a statement not 

 heretofore met with by me ; nor had I suspected the influence of the Rayer 

 dynasty, so far south as Sri-raoigham, at so early a period. However here 

 is the evidence in a document respectably authenticated ; and I think, in 

 this particular, worthy of credit. I had otherwise considered that the 

 genealogy would be of use in ascending upwards to the origin of the Sri- 

 ■rangham fane. There are two dates ; from A. D. 1361 upwards, allowing, 

 on an average, 33 years for each one of 80 generations, we come to 

 A. C. 1279 ; and from A, D. 1072, ascending for 74 generations, we 

 come to A. C. 1370. By this check a difference of about one hundred 

 years becomes apparent ; and it is otherwise manifest that the numbers, 

 in the earlier part of the series, cannot be relied on. From documents 

 which have passed through my hands, I know that the date of the foun- 

 dation of this fane can be definitely fixed at a much later period. There 

 are also other documents yet to be examined, before any positive coU" 

 elusion is drawn. It may be observed, in passing, that the names of the 

 head Brahmans give intimations of the cotemporary rulers ; as, for ex- 

 ample, under the northern dynasty at Madura, the names of the head 

 Brahmans are similar to the names of those kings ; and so on upwards .: 

 a remark perhaps not to be entirely neglected. As a document in 

 evidence, this genealogical list, should, in my opinion, be fully translated. 



Section 6. Chronological account of the ancient kings of the Cali^ 

 i/>uga, with some account of Chandragiri, 



This brief paper is endorsed in Col. Mackenzie's hand-writing Papei 

 from Chandra-giri 1802;" and on anotlier page ^' History of Chandra" 

 giriy The following is the substance of its contents. 



Reference to the Yugas : then to persons and events of the Mahahhd' 

 mta down to Saranga d^haren-^ with whom the lunar race became ex- 

 tinct. Afterwards »SWra-ilffl!7i«-rff/a ruled 154 years. 'Y\\e Bhdgavatam 

 s related to some of the forementioned kings. Vicramarka ruled 1745 



